geocentric flyby

Poetry
Written By Natalye Childress (she/her)

out here in this continuum, it’s lonely, vast, and cold. i keep circling the sun, and yet. try as i might,  i can’t get close enough to his warmth. but it’s almost cuffing season, and asteroids need love too. so i left apollo, i left the arjunas, flitting along interplanetary paths, until i saw her: all those blues and greens bleeding into one another. now gaia is all i can think about; i can’t resist her pull. i want to be her short-capture mini moon, pirouetting in a horseshoe path. i want to be her rocky, low-velocity lover, a navel-stone entrenched in her gravity. i want her to write about me, a modern-day autour de la lune, her harvest, hunter, frost moon. phobos and deimos, are you watching me? here i am, a temporary satellite dancing in the starlight. atlas, if only you could see me now.

Natalye Childress (she/her)

Natalye Childress (she/her) is a Berlin-based editor, writer, translator, and sad punk. She is a Best of the Net nominee, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in scaffold, BRAWL, Epistemic Literary, Frozen Sea, Querencia Press, and elsewhere. Natalye has an MA in creative writing, and her first book, The Aftermath of Forever, was published by Microcosm Publishing.

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